Written in 1905, The Colonel's Dream is a compelling, bitter tale of the post-Civil War South's degeneration into a regions awash with virulent racist practices against African Americans: segregation, lynchings, disenfranchisement, convect-labor exploitation, and endemic violent repression.
The events in this novel are powerfully depicted from the point of view of a philanthropic but unreliable southern white colonel.
Upon his return to the South, the colonel quickly learns to abhor this worl.
| Americans | Segregation lynchings disenfranchisement convectlabor exploitation and endemic violent repression |
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West Virginia University Press The colonel's dream, paperback/charles w. chestnutt
